Rare-earth ion doped up-conversion materials for photovoltaic applications

Advanced Materials

Volumn 23, Issue 22-23, 2011, Pages 2675-2680

  Wang, Hai Qiao ^a   Batentschuk, Miroslaw ^a   Osvet, Andres ^a   Pinna, Luigi ^a   Brabec, Christoph J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b BAVARIAN CENTER FOR APPLIED ENERGY RESEARCH ZAE BAYERN   (Germany)

Author keywords

nonlinear optical materials; phosphors; photovoltaic devices; rare earth ions

Indexed keywords

INFRARED REGIONS; NEWS ARTICLES; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL MATERIAL; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; RARE EARTH IONS; RECENT PROGRESS; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; SOLAR-CELL APPLICATIONS; UP-CONVERSION;

LIGHT EMISSION; METAL IONS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOSPHORS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SUN;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

ION; LANTHANIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SOLAR ENERGY;

IONS; METALS, RARE EARTH; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 79959381323     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201100511     Document Type: Article

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